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Global health is facing major cuts. We still scored some surprising wins.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that hope is in short supply these days in global health. The steep cuts to lifesaving global health programs, the...

22.10.2025 2

Pratik Pawar

The only thing standing between humanity and the end of HIV

How often, on average, do you forget to take your daily meds? For me, it’s about twice a week. And that’s for something as low stakes as a vitamin...

14.10.2025 4

Pratik Pawar

Lead batteries are poisoning millions of children. Here are 3 proven ways to stop it.

Remember the Flint, Michigan, water crisis? The public health disaster that, at its peak, poisoned nearly 5 percent of the city’s children with...

27.09.2025 40

Pratik Pawar

For the first time, more kids are obese than underweight

Something striking just happened in global nutrition: As of 2025, children worldwide are now more likely to be obese than underweight. According to...

15.09.2025 5

Pratik Pawar

A flesh-eating parasite is at our borders. What happens if it spreads?

A Maryland resident who traveled to El Salvador came home last month with an unwelcome souvenir: larvae of the New World screwworm burrowing in their...

07.09.2025 10